One day, driving home from work, owner Mike Davies was overcome by the desire to learn how to make craft chocolate. It was a sudden and all encompassing feeling, a life changing moment – and one he knew he couldn't ignore. Over the next few months, he put together his initial set up (a small coffee roaster, a Champion juicer for cracking and pre-refining, a Diamond melanger, a small tempering machine and a neon pink hair dryer for winnowing that he stole from his wife) and got to work. It was a rabbit hole he never crawled back out of (his wife has since had to get a new hair dryer).

Now, Crow & Moss is making artisan chocolate in one hundred pound batches in their 2000 square foot factory in Petoskey, Michigan, trying to bring out unique and true-to-bean flavor experiences to share with chocolate lovers.